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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-02-16
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
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Washington, Fcb4th 1887.
Who viii succeed secretary
Manning? IL q luostioa that
l. causing much speculation just
now. 1t having been pretty def
initcly settled that Nlr. Manning
viii 8ooiI resign the portfolio Oftho
Treasury, political Gosalps have
fixed the date ofhig retirement and
elevated half dozen men to his
plaC9 in the Cabinet.
Among ihosc is the wealthy Pom
syIvnHia Cougrcaaman, Mr.. Within
Scott, who has frequently hrcu
mo"i.GICd before a. Que IuTt Gcu-
yrt@ry ~ t'r Jyef57r., Bur Mr..
wa thst 20.
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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-02-16
M .AsGI31ls.sINE1HRY9
STATE or SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF LAURENS.-IN
THE PROBATE COURT.

WHEREAS, G. w. Shell, G. O. G. p, haa
applied to me for Lcttors Of Administra-
C"uSCd.
These arc therefore TO cite and admon-
ish all nd singular tho Kindred and
croditors"ot said dcceascd to be and up
pear hctoro-mo, in tho Court OF &Probatc,
to hc huidcn;"t LaurCrs.COurt House,
cause, If any thcy can why said Lcttora
should not be granted.
All persons havingclainis aGainstEsaid
estate will present tho snmuOn or before
that day, or be forever barred.
Given under my hand and sseal, this
l9th day or january, 1897
A. w. BURNSIDE,
O. ProbatoW judge.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-02-16

One hundred years ago, an act
Tsas passed by the legislature Of
South Carolina declaring who are
so be deemed Migrants "hH per
h3on3 WHO wanler about from piaco
''tn N'oeH without nny }no0n 90
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-02-16
ThegState Of South Carolina,
County
COURT. OF PROBATE.

COURT. OF PROBATE.
Silas $ Knight, ~ admin-
istrator with tho Will an |
npxud of Sarah Evans doc
Plaintiif, !
against SUMMONS
CorriC Evans PinknoY Eiv-
ans, curry Evans and
Evans,
Defendants
To tho Defona ants above namod 1
YOU arc herUqv summoned and re-
quircd to answer tho complaint in this
action, which Is filed In The Office OF tho
Judge OF Probate for the said County,
and to ser vc y copy OF your answer til
tho said complaint on tho subscriber at
his oflco, Laurono, South Carolina,
within twenty days after service hereof,
exclusive of the day OF such service; and
and II You fail to anSw or Ethe complaint
within the time aforesaid, tho plaintiff
in this action will apply to the court for
the relief demanded in tho complaint,
Dated 18th Jan, ~ u 1897 n, ~
a w BURNSIDE,
JPLC
JOHNNY Ferguson,
Plaintiffs Attorney,
70 no defendants ;Corrio Evans, Pink
roy iINant, Carry Evans, Catherine EY-
ans: You will trkc notice That the sum
mons and compliant in his action wcro
III OF inlthC Office of the Judge of Pratato
tor LHDrCnS County, South Carolina, on
illc 18th day of JauuHry, 1877, cL~nt
John W ForSuaUn, Plain Any
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-02-16

A single man who hns health aud
brain9 and can't find o livelihood IN Tho
world doesn't deserve TO stay thorc.--
PenIcnniA
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-02-16
LAUnNNS COUNTY
3&AA E8TAT
AGENCY. r.

por RCut-
Ufiiroo "'rroA.ounoH, in tn town Of Eau
rCnS.
roR SNLE:
5000 "crca land. located In different
portions OF aurcn" county,
Fon %ti.;or RE4r
= mum Dor ~ Sulondid Residences "a the
pWnotlHnrcHs.
innw store houso ut High Point ON
tn" q l.& u r, i'rlco lo~-A spiondtd
stand for astore.
n olcgurt house and lot in tho city OF
''r",hIiIir rhis property is splondidly
l"rG'ot Conycui"nt 10 business portion
OF IN" city, n!ao to churches and stront
railway "a bargain is onorod---If not
sold, tho house ana elegant farnitnre
VIII b" rented low.
f0r part 'lIars ~ to II OF tho above
property cell in or address
in uNMPTON,
Manager.
JCGARLTNGTON, Attorney.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-24
FOUND DEAD.

A New York Real Estate Agent Discovered
Dead. and His wife Unconscious.
NEW YORK, December 23.-James Mill
Ter, real estate dealer, about 20 years
old, was found lying dead this morning on
the floor of his home in West Sixteenth
street. Beside him lay his wife uncon-
scious and dying. On her face and head
were several gashes 1t is supposed the
couple were attacked and beaten by rob
bers.
The discovery was made by letter car
rier, who knocked at their door about 3
O'Clock. He received no answer, but
heard a labored breathing from within,
that caused him to think something
WAS wrong. He called a policeman, who
broke the door open. The furniture,
kitchen utensils, and crockery were broken,
and the fragments strewn over thel floor.
The apartments are on tie ground floor,
and n window opening on the yard was
open. Nr. Miller was said to he wealthy.
His wife, the neighbOrs say, has been insane
lOl TUE HNhSt NNAts hlhC was N~NSS W '>
hospital.
Miller and his wife were heard laughing
in their rooms by the family living on the
floor above them last Wednesday after
noon. From that time until this morning
nothing had been seen or heard OF them.
Miller was fully dressed and across his
legs lay an overturned easy chair. The
police now believe the case was not one OF
murder or robbery, but that the old man
died of heart disease in his chair, and fell
from it, knocking the chair and the stove
down in his fall. There were no injuries
on his body except n confusion on the
back of the head that is not thought suti-
cient to cause death.
1t is supposed that Mrs. Miller, who was
but Gue year younger than her husband,
was too Seak-Einded to notify the neigh
bors of her husbands 3 deSth, and that her
weak and exhausted condition Is due to
starvation, as she was unable to procure or
cook TODD for herself. Her husband was
accustomed to do all the marketing, cook
ing and otEer household work. The old
couple held little communication with
their ueighbors.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-24
WASHINGTON NEWS.
CHAT AND GOSSIP ABOUTWEST gIRGINIANS
ATTHECAPITAL.
Representative Hogg Doing Quite Well for a New
Asubsr-Why Mr. Chiffon, Of Kanawha
County, Was Relieved Of His Position
Pensions Granted and Increased.
SpsesG! Ts!eGrGm 10 the Register.

SpecsGi telegram 70 he Register.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., December 23.-
During the last two days there have been
presented in the House of Representatives
eleven hundred and seventy private bills,
of which Mr.. Hogg, of West Virginia, pre-
sented sixty-three.
Among the West Yirginians in town to-
day were Col. David Fox, OF Ham pshire
county, and Col. Isaac Parsons, OF ''The
Rocks" This forenoon these two gentle
men were accompanied to the White House
and presented to the President by Commits
Sioner of Internal Revenue Miller.
Mr.. G. S. Chiffon, of Kanawha county,
W. Va, who has been holding the position
of foreman of the folding room under the
DoOrkeeper of the House of Representa-
tives, was notified to-day that his place
was wanted for another. The cause of
Mr.. Chilton's decapitation grows out OF
the fact that his Representative, Mr.. Sny-
der, did not vote for the new doOrkeeper
in the Democratic caucus on the organiza-
tion of the House.
A pension has been granted to Nimrod
n. Hoffman, OF Morgantown, for services
in the Mexican war. Among other pen
sions issued to West Virginians are the
following: Nancy J. Fletcher, of Middle
bourne; Elizabeth Blackburn, of Antioch;
Mary NJ. Ayers, OF Cairo, and George H.
Waller, OF Tryconnell Mines. The pen
siOus OF James w. Ward, OF GuyandOtte,
and of James NJ. Payne, of Clay Court
House, have been increased James Il
Moses, OF st. Alban's, has been restored TO
the pension rolls,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-24
WIRE WAIFS.
Brief kilograms That Tell OF Minor Hap.
penings In the World.

Brief kilograms That Tell OF Minor Hap.
peuIngs In the World.
A fire at Nonteviedo, Mimi, yesterday,
destroyed ten buildings, eptailing loss OF
$4,000. The fire apparatus was rendered
useless owing TO the freezing weather.
The dry goods store OF + Ruff & Co,
Evansville, Indiana, was destroyed by fire.
Loss $40, 900.
Pearson Mccoy was found guilty of
murder in the second degree at lronton,
Ohio, yesterday, for the killing of DR..
William Northup last April. He and his
father killed Northup in a fight growing
ont OF a prohibition quarrel, Northup be
ing prohibitionist and the McCOys sa-
loon keepers. All. Mccoy, the father, is
now serving a life sentence.
1t is announced at FL Paso, Texas, that
the Mexican government has granted ex-
traordinary concessions to real estate
company to induce immigration to the
States of Mexico. The compony has OBJ,
tanned the title to 5000, 900 acres Of land
in Chihuahua, Sinoioa, Durango, Cohiula,
Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Tamaulihas, Vera
Cruz, Michaveau, Galisco, and Guerro, and
propose to establish agencies in all the
large cities of Europe and America The
government has granted exemption from
taxation and duty to all settlers on thes'
tracts and insures proper protection.
Michael 0'Connor, a burglar, who Is
capped from the jail at Pittsfeld, Mass b!
the use Of a saw made from the steel shanl
of one of his shoes, has been recaptured il
New York city.
The Western New York and Pennsyl
yania round house at Oil City, Pa, il
which were seven locomotives, burne'
yesterday. Loss $35, 900.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-24
CAPITAL CHAT.
Gossip of the Departments-The Imports
and Exports.

Gossip of the Departments-The Imports
and Exports.
WASHINGTON, December 23. Secretary
Whitney has informed Mr. w. II. II.
Smith, Chief Clerk OF the Bureau of Steam
Engineering, that his services as chief
clerkswill not be needed after January 1st
Mr Smith has been in the Navy Depart
ment twenty years
During the present month there has been
great increase in the number of foreign
money orders, which is attributed to the
custom Of the people in this country send
ing Christmas presents of money To their
friends abroad. 1t is estimated that the
amount of money sent away this month
will b. greater than any previous year.
More money is sent to Great Britain than
any other foreign country.
Major J. NJ. Wright, OF LewisSille, KY,
has been appointed Marshal of the United
States Supreme Court in place OF Col j. q.
NiCoCay. VINO has held that office about -
years Major Wright is one Of LouisvilIe's
hest citIlsus. He ~ graduate of West
Point, and was at one time on Gen. BuelPs
staa, He was for some time an editorial
writer On the COuri0-JOurHdi. Afterwards
he was made Superintendent of the Board
OF Trade. and later President OF the South
eru Exposition Company.
Senator Sawyer, Chairman OF the Senate
Post OliCe Committee, says he will bring
the subject of the postal telegraph before
the committee very early after the holiday
recess; and he expresses the opinion that
the committee will set about the study CT
the question involved at once.
1t : stated at the General Laud Office
that ;, lT9 patents under the homestead
preemption and other public land laws,
we're Issued between the lat and 2ith of
the present mouth. This is a large in
crease over the record for December, 1886.
The Chief OF the Bureau of Statistics, in
his monthly statement for the year ending
June so, ls@7, of the imports and exports
Of the United States, reports that the total
values OF imports of merchandise for the
tive, eleven and twelve months ended No
vember 81, l--7, aS compared with similar
imports Tor the corresponding periods OF
the preceding year, were az follows:
Five months ended November 3O-$299, =
~, G25; same period in 1896, $2TS, SOL, =
40.
Eleven months ended November 80, lSS1
--S656, 7O-, ,sl1; in lS~6, $6OT, l5l, ,0S1.
Twelve months Of l~S1-$7l2, $50, 9l~;
in l--6. $659, 362, ,6O7. The total values OF
the exports were ~ follows: Five months
ended November 30, lss7.$3ll, ,653, ,241;
in l-~G $500, 375, s23.
Eleven months in lS~7-$642, Oi3, ,3ll;
in l--e, S62T, ,9s6, ,G97. Twelve months in
lS-1- S121, 400, ,635; in lsSG, S1O2, 2GO, Alb.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-24
RAILROAD STRIKE.
TIE EMPLOYEES OF THE PHILADELPHIA
READING ROAD
Object 10 The Introduction Of -Crw Of Hoa-uaUn
Nsu-0ys One Thousand hsa Quit
Work-A General hs-Up
Expected To-day.

PHILADELPHIA, December %. One
thousand men employed by the Philadel-
phia and Reading Railroad Company on
their line running from West Falls to the
Port Richmond coal wharves either as
trainmen, coal handlers or freight
handlers Quit work this afternoon at
half.past four. This action wss caused BY
the introduction Of train crew Of hve non
union men to do the work upon which
union men hsd been employed. but who
had been discharged. This movement will Be
to all the employees Of the
road, and general strike on all the lines
OF the company may be the result.
The trouble originated yesterday morn
ing when crew of freight handlers en-
gagged in shifting cars loaded with dour
into Q pier controlled by the hrm OF
Charles NJ. Taylor Il Sons. refused TO de-
liver any more freight to the hrm unless
the non union lsborers, employed In hand
ling the freight, should be discharged.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-24
BUSINESS REVIEW.
The state of the Markets as Viewed by
Dun's Agency.

The state of the Markets as Viewed by
Dun's Agency.
NEW YORK, December Or G.. Dun
& Co., in tkcir weekly review of trade,
say: Business throughout the country is
active for the season, and though COllec-
tions at some points are slow and
credits are strained, the reports are
generally fairly satisfactory. But un-
certainty and hesitation affect impor
tant branches of production, and the
industrial outlook does not improve. Cur
rency Is generally in good supply even
where payments are slowest and credits
most strained. Speculation has been less
active, and the general level Of prices
though higher than week ago, in most
speculative markets, has on the whole de-
clined a little. Since July lst, the aver.
age of prices in speculative markets has
advanced l5.6 per cent, with the tendency
still upward, while the average advance in
all other prices has been &c per cent, with
the latter tendency downward.
These facts indicate activity in trading,
rather than satisfactory relations of supply
and demand. The iron trade is unsettled
with sales Of several Thousand tons of Biz
miugham pig here, while at Philadelphia,
offers of 81 below the market are noted.
Sales of forty thousand tons of steel rails
have been made during the week, and gen.
orally at terms netting between
S3l and $32. Bar iron is weaker
and the tendency to shrinkage in demand
appears not only in crude, but in many
manufactured forms of iron and steel.
Wool is not active ard prices range 10 to
Is per cent below those of May last, not
withstanding the decrease in imports and
in home production, which shows a cur
tailment of the manufacture.
The general volume of trade shown in
bank clearings outside this city is even now
fully aS large as last years at this period.
the expected Reading
strike, stocks have averaged fraction
higher than a week ago, but the market
has been exceedingly dull. Wheat has
risen II cents, oil 3! cents, coffee aquerter,
with better distribution, and hogs half
cent, and pork % cents per barrel.
Tin has beer lifted one cent and copper
is unchanged.
The sugar market shows no change,
though the Louisiana crop is reported fully
100, 600 hogsheads larger than last year.
Exports OF wheat shrink as rice advances.
The business failures during the last
seven days number for the United States
POI, and for Canada %; total 300, COM
pared with 2sS last week, and 263 for the
corresponding week of last year.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-24
GENTLE ANNIE.
A Female In jail for Attempting to Use
Pistol.

A Female In jail for Attempting TO Use q
Pistol.
Last evening about seven O'Clock Annie
Laurie Costello, who had during the greater
portion OF the afternoon been upon an un-
ususlly wild tear, WAS placed under ar
rest by Officer Ben, Dunlap and committed
to jail, to be arraigned before Justice Phil.
lips this morning on the charge OF attempt
ing to shoot Peter Curry.
Annie had by some means or other not
apparent at this time, obtained q pistol,
and according TO the statements Of the po
lice, had been looking for a we'll known at
torney during part Of the afternoon. Just
before seven o'clock she fell foul OF Curry,
and bringing the pistol to bear, caused very
sudden vacancy in the atmosphere where
that gentleman had stood a moment he
fore. For this she vas consigned 10 prison
cell.
Later in the evening Curry had another
narrow escape from trouble Of different
nature. He went down to his shanty boat
and started to smash the furniture.
boy was despatched for an officer, ant
Officer Shorts responded. Shorts secured
his man, but Mrs. Curry relented, and re
fused to prosecute, 50 he was again set a
liberty.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-24
A Mismanaged Railroad.

HALIFAX, n. s., December ga spe-
cial from North Sydney to the Chronicle
says: For months past the greatest dissat,
isfaction has prevailed on the Cape Breton
Railway. Hundreds of workmen have
not been paid for nearly three months.
The government has placed the road in the
hands Of the sureties OF Sims q Slater, the
contractors, Mr.. Sherwood, who is here
for the sureties, addressed large gather
ering to day. He charged Sims with reck-
lessness and incompetency and pledged
himself to liquidate every dollar OF the III
debteduess.
Mr. Sims, in reply, admitted that be
had not dollar in the contract and stated
that when the contract Was signed it was
expressly understood that number OF
prominent politicians i'll this country were
to have a third interest in it. He de-
nouuced them as "boOdlers," whose only
object was to appropriate money furnished
by the government.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-24
BAD DRAINAGE
or the Treasury Building the Cause of MIR.
Mr.. MannIng's Illness.


NEW YORK, December 23.-Despatches
from Albany state that the illness of ex-
Secretary Manning was caused in great
measure by the bad drainage in the Treas
ury Building. This was one of the causes
privately assigned when he was first
stricken here with an illness, as to the
nature of which the physicians at the time
were not disposed to take
the public into their conf
dence. There undoubtedly were
other causes than bad drainage which
tended to produce the sh ok, but there
never has been any doubt among those
we'll informed on the subject that his sys-
TEN was weakened by the defective plumb
ing in the room in which he mostly
worked. Mr.. Manning is the second Sec
retary Of the Treasury from New York
whose illness has been ascribed in a great
measure to the same cause. Judge FOlger
sat- as Mr.. Manning did, q great part of
the time in the private room adjacent to
the large one which then served as the
reception room of the Secretary of the
Treasury, Next to this small apartment
there Is q bath room, and an examination
made by the Treasury architect at the
time of Secretary Folger's illness disclosed
its extraordinary unsanitary condition. A
great many clerks were also taken i'll. The
The Treasury Department made such i'm
proyements as the scanty appropriations
would permit, and Secretary Manning
changed the location of his working room,
hut the change did not remove him wholly
from the unwhOlesOme influences. And,
Notwithstanding that new traps have been
put in, the sanitary condition Of the Treas
ury Building is pronounced by those who
have charge of it, and by the medical au-
thorities of the District, exceedingly bad.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-24
IN A SMALL WAY.
Tho News of tho Dsy Pointsdly Psrs
grsphsd for HAsty Headers.

Tho News Of tho bay Pointsdiy Pare
grsphsd for HAsty Headers.
CHANG up the Christmas stock king"
POLICE COURT WAS n blank, yesterday
morning.
OSE deed Of trust Was admitted 10 re-
cord by Clerk Hook, yesterday.
THE Y. NJ. G. A. will give . New Years
reception on Monday evening, January ID.
The Young Mems Democratic Club met
last night Ia hear the report Of the Commit
tee on bylaws.
WILLIAM DURBIs, Of NJ Pleasant, died
very suddenly Thursday, while on his way
home from market. The malsdy wn con-
gestion Of the lungs.
The pupils OF Richie school gave .
splendid entertainment at the school last
evening which was largely attended, and
the programme rendered ~sS enjoyable sll
through.
JOHE W. CAMPBELL, bead clerk In tbs
Bellaire po-tofiice, an exemplary gentle
men, died st his home in franklin, O.,
yesterday morning At o O'Clock, after .
short illness Of typhoid fever.
The Young Mems Christian Associs-
tion's Saturday evening and Sunday after
noon young mems mestiDgs will he held ~
usual tonight and Tomorrow. Tho meet
ing at 4 o'clock Sunday will he an sppr0-
pirate Christmas service. Yenng men are
invited 10 attend.
WILL STANLEY and Walter Worls hsd
a narrow escApe from drowning In the
creek yesterday. They were skating on
thin ice and Wors broke through while
in the middle Of the stream, and upon
Stanley going 10 his assistance he, too, fell
in. Fortunately they both escaped with
nothing worse than al ice water bath.
A YigE broke cot In McPsddsn's livery
stable in MoundsVills yesterday morning.
and a. II IL located near the public school
there was . good deal Of excitement oocs-
stoned. The horses and vehicles were
saved, and the hamss spread TO another
stable and both were consumed. The eu-
tire loss on buildings and contents amounts
to about 81 GO. II II tboaybt 70 be Of
ncsDdiary origin.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-24
IMPORTANT, If TRUE.
Natural Gas Said to Have Been Discovered
In Chicago.

CHICAGO, December 23.-Natural gas
was found here yesterday. The Cooke
Brewing Company's plant is situated at
2Tth street and Johnson avenue While
using city water in manufacturing beer,
the company has water works system of
its own which supplies what is necessary
for steam, washing, etc. To accomplish
this pipe extends from the brewery, un-
,ier the Hi, ois railroad tracks and forty
feet out into the lake. The pump used is
a new one The engineer yesterday motto
I'd that it seemed to be pumping wind.
Thinking there was a leak in the lake
pipe, il was brought TO the surface, but it
was apparently sound. There was mud
on the sJrainer, aud this was thought
strange, ~ it WAS supposed the bottom of
the lake was sandy.
Again the pump was started and it
failed to bring up water. Then an eX-
animation of the pump was made, and
when one of the valves was moved slight
explosion took place. The engineer
brought lighted candle in, the better TO ex-
anime the pump when, as the flame struck
the valve u pillar of flame burst forth,
burned for iew moments, and then went
out. A one and One-half inch pipe was
inserted in the five inch one and three
quarter inch opening made i'll the end Of
the smaller pipe. From this, for over
twenty-iOur hours, fifteen inch flame of
gas has been burning, and experts declare
it 10 h" natural gas.